Referal-based showing option for adense ads.

Showing ads or not depending on the referal.

[fischermx]

I'm thinking about not showing adsense everytime in one of my sites.
I was thiking to show adsense only to people arriving to my site through search engine. Therefore, bookmarked visitors or type-ins who reminded my website name would be rewarded by not annoying them with ads.
What do you think about this idea?
My main concern would be if this is somehow classified as bad-cloacking and I get booted.

[jetteroheller]

Annoying?!?

Do You know what annoying ads are?

Flash moving around just right where You want to read.

Flash with flahsing color changes.

I would never consider AdSense ads as annoying.
They are very usefull parts of the web site.

They give very valuable information about similar services or devices.

[sirkei]

Regarding to the first posters question, i think it is a good idea. And in fact, many forums are already doing this. Some of them purposely said that " Join the Forum to remove this Ad " or similar. And this is allowed per TOS.

[topr8]

>>My main concern would be if this is somehow classified as bad-cloacking and I get booted.

as the js parts of a page are not indexed then this would not be considered cloaking.

[jimilives]

This would be very easily done using a cookie to not run the code if you have visited the page, but as you say this would in fact be ad cloaking.

A suggestion? Have an option on your site to turn off ads, if they click it you write a cookie to thier pc (or use a database and sessions, which ever) This way your not cloaking ads automatically so a search engine would not then see a cloaked page, word to wise make it a form and not a link to turn off ads, or spider will get click link and turn off ads, though I dont know if spiders take cookies.

I am next to positive this would keep you on legit side (and score you some brownie points with your viewers) let me know if you need some code for this.